Rich Egger

Macomb School District 185 will phase out the lunch-time open campus policy at its high school.

In a release, the hospital said President and CEO Michael McCoy has left the organization to be with his family during “a difficult time.”

Extension is collaborating with the Illinois Department of Transportation to turn the roughly one-acre site into a restored prairie habitat.

The Knox County YMCA is celebrating recent improvements that it said will better serve the community.

A new book highlights 15 sermons by civil rights leader The Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian, who grew up in Macomb.

The county board this week gave the go-ahead to starting an on-demand service. The Galesburg city council approved it in mid-July.

The National Weather Service office in the Quad Cities reported that all major observation sites in its service area hit a heat index of at least 110 degrees during the two-day extreme heat event on July 26 and 27.

Non-stop music will fill the street outside Burlington's Capitol Theater on Saturday, Aug. 8 for the Old Couch Music Festival.

Shaiking Mathis, now 40, faces multiple charges of aggravated battery to a police officer and aggravated discharge of a firearm for the shooting in 2024.

Inman said the city hoped the project could be done next year, but now it's more likely to be done in 2028.